New Rikti Invasion Video!

Yes, ladies, gentlemen, and beings of indeterminate gender, the infamous video is now DONE! (And though I do say so myself, it is unbearably cool. I have truly surpassed myself.) And it is now live! Currently it is available on the Samuraiko Productions Web site (on the Multimedia>Videos page), and I am in the process of getting it onto YouTube.

I can make no guarantees when it will be available on YouTube (sometimes stuff goes up really fast, other times it takes a dog's age), or how long they'll let it stay there (given their propensity for just taking stuff down). However, like all my other videos on there, this one has the tags "Samuraiko Productions", so a search for that will pull up all my videos.

For those with a fast Internet connection, the version on my site is roughly 75MB, with good quality sound and video. YouTube, of course, is not nearly that hot, but it's also not nearly that BIG.

Also, spoiler warning! Watching this video might clue you in on things that you previously did not know.

If you love it, you are welcome to tell others, but PLEASE, as a courtesy, do not just link straight to the video. Just point them to my Web site.

Cheers!
Michelle

Very well put together!

I love the dying montage!

Really nice! Surprised to see JetWolf and Ultrace mentioned in the credits, as I've known them for quite some time....

Very cool! Great job putting it together!

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Really nice! Surprised to see JetWolf and Ultrace mentioned in the credits, as I've known them for quite some time....

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Thank you, thank you, and thank you.

And yes, Jetwolf and Ultrace both sent me footage for use in the video, so of course I had to credit them!

The dying montage was fun to do - timing it was a pain, though, but at least I had an excuse to have characters die during the invasions! ("Oh, well, at least I can use the death shot...") And no debt... heh heh heh.

Trust me, dying was the only way to get some of those shots.

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko (aka Dark Respite, Johanna Sinclair, Embermage, Rhiannon Vendredi, etc, etc, etc)

That is excellent!! Great work on this.

Really well done, big props. And I don't say that about too many videos.

I particularly liked the shot of the Heavy shooting the camera and it going to fuzz, the bomb dropping on the hospital, as well as the "simpler" manipulations of the titles. And they were very good titles indeed.

Also, I apologize for not getting my invasion demos to you -- the PC that had them on decided to break and I completely forgot to send you a PM about that.

Thank you very much!

Now if I'm REALLY lucky, Statesman and Positron will notice and I will be on my way to fame and fortune as Cryptic's latest video creator...

... or on my way to jail for copyright infringement. One of the two.

Michelle
aka
Dark Respite/Samuraiko

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Really well done, big props. And I don't say that about too many videos.

I particularly liked the shot of the Heavy shooting the camera and it going to fuzz, the bomb dropping on the hospital, as well as the "simpler" manipulations of the titles. And they were very good titles indeed.

Also, I apologize for not getting my invasion demos to you -- the PC that had them on decided to break and I completely forgot to send you a PM about that.

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Thanks! And you're forgiven - I figured SOMETHING must have happened, but as chaotic as my own life has been, I've not been following up on things I should be. Grrrr.

"Simpler"? Not sure I understand that one.

As for the shot going to static and the Rikti bombing the hospital, these were both shots I'd intended to get from the start, but the hospital shot was the VERY LAST FOOTAGE I shot in that game. ARGH! (The Rikti would never invade Skyway when I NEEDED them to, or when they did, I couldn't get there in time to catch that flyover.)

Thank you again, I appreciate the compliments! (Especially knowing they're not handed out that lightly.)

Michelle
aka
Dark Respite/Samuraiko

Most people don't realize that doing titles is harder than it looks, therefore "simpler." I liked the music transition, too.

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Most people don't realize that doing titles is harder than it looks, therefore "simpler." I liked the music transition, too.

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Ah, okay.

Thanks - that's actually five separate pieces of music edited together for the video. Go me.

Michelle

Amazing video, and a very nice website. I will have to look more into your writing (I am an aspiring writer new to the game, got any advice?). I had to laugh at the special place spammers had.

If you don't mind I would like to make a suggestion about the website. Some links open new windows, I personally would prefer if they all opened in the same window.

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Amazing video, and a very nice website. I will have to look more into your writing (I am an aspiring writer new to the game, got any advice?). I had to laugh at the special place spammers had.

If you don't mind I would like to make a suggestion about the website. Some links open new windows, I personally would prefer if they all opened in the same window.

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The site opening separate windows for certain pages was originally to allow people whose lousy browsers (*coughcoughAOLcoughcough*) hated backing up to earlier-viewed pages. However, I will consider going back and cutting down the number of pages that do that.

Advice? Write, write, write. I got good by writing until my brain felt like a lemon at half-time. (And I have a COH story as well, on the FanFiction.net site, called, "Faith, Hope, and a Few Unlikely Superpowers.")

And yes, the spammers deserve what they get. Trust me - I work in Technical Support, I know how to hurt them.

And thank you for enjoying my video!

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark Respite

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I can make no guarantees when it will be available on YouTube

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How about... NEVER? YouTub (sp!) would make a mockery of this presentation. Knowing well its awful re-compression, non-WS presentation and MONO... yes MONO-compressed audio... this video, with all the love and care that went into its creation... would be sacrificed upon the alter.

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I can make no guarantees when it will be available on YouTube

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How about... NEVER? YouTub (sp!) would make a mockery of this presentation. Knowing well its awful re-compression, non-WS presentation and MONO... yes MONO-compressed audio... this video, with all the love and care that went into its creation... would be sacrificed upon the alter.

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True - which is why the original, uber-cool versions of my videos are always available on my Web site. YouTube is for folks who do not have the Internet connection to really appreciate my video in its pure, unadulterated form.

(I can't really mock, though - for the longest time, I WAS one of those people.)

I'm glad you enjoyed it, though, thank you very much!

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark Respite

This is really cool! You should upload it to FileFront, they need some game videos that aren't WoW PVP brag-fests...

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This is really cool! You should upload it to FileFront, they need some game videos that aren't WoW PVP brag-fests...

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Never been there, so I'm not sure what all is entailed... but thank you for the recommendation! And I'm glad you liked it!

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark Respite

I really like this video.. very professional

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I really like this video.. very professional

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Thank you very much - I appreciate the compliment.

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark Respite

FileFront's just a site for gaming content, and users can upload gaming videos like yours for hosting and video streaming. I've been playing WoW for the past two years and that community uses it a lot, but I was poking around today and I noticed there's like zero CoX content up there, not sure why. Just something that popped into my head, don't mind me. Back to the comments about how awesome your video is!

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FileFront's just a site for gaming content, and users can upload gaming videos like yours for hosting and video streaming. I've been playing WoW for the past two years and that community uses it a lot, but I was poking around today and I noticed there's like zero CoX content up there, not sure why. Just something that popped into my head, don't mind me. Back to the comments about how awesome your video is!

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I don't mind at all, now in the process of getting it uploaded there.

And thank you again for the compliments!

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark Respite

Well, I submitted it to FileFront to have them add it to their library. No idea when it will become live there, though.

Does anyone know how long it takes the devs to actually respond to stuff? I'd sent a PM to Lighthouse a few days ago and got the "read" receipt, but no response...

I hope this is not the "let's call in the lawyers" calm before the storm.

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark Respite